Elizabeth Warren Condemns the Wrong Man – The New York Times

David Silenus
December 13, 2016 at 6:59pm

Don’t agree with Sorkin on a lot of things, but he seems to have a point here about Warren creating dissension where there should be solidarity, at least in this particular case …

Most of my posts can be “angry” or “wow” in horror … but this is one that truly makes me “sad” …  …

It’s not such a big deal …

But we really NEED Warren to keep going after Trump personally — and Wall Street control of the economy — so her credibility is utterly crucial to maintain … this doesn’t help …  …

“There’s one glaring problem with Warren’s attack: Tilson happens to be one of the few financial executives who publicly fought Trump’s election and supported Hillary Clinton.

A lifelong Democrat who was involved in helping to start Teach for America, Tilson also happened to be one of the rare Wall Street executives who had donated to Warren and actively sought new regulations for the industry.

Recently, he gave Clinton $1,000 so he could see Warren speak at a campaign fund-raiser. (He’s also far, far from a billionaire.)

“I’ve donated money to her, attended her events, and did everything in my power to stop Donald Trump,” Tilson told me, talking about Warren and expressing dismay that he somehow became the target of her derision.

“In addition, I agree with her 100 percent that large swaths of the financial industry have run amok and prey on vulnerable Americans,

and thus strong regulation, including a muscular Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is sorely needed,” he said” …

“To make matters worse, Tilson’s wife, Susan Blackman Tilson, was one of the students in the first Harvard Law School bankruptcy class that Ms. Warren taught, in fall 1992.

The student has remained loyal to her professor; Ms. Tilson wrote in a letter to Warren last week that she had been “cheering from the sidelines as you rose to national attention for your excellent work on behalf of consumers.””

If any of this is true, then Liz really should clean it up … in the face of everything going on, needlessly alienating allies is a bad thing …

The Massachusetts senator recently attacked the hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson in a Facebook post, despite his support of her and new financial industry regulations.

Source: Elizabeth Warren Condemns the Wrong Man – The New York Times